A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others,...

The tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some fo the most memorable characters in American literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant.

A story centered around the assortment of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans.

The Unvanquished is a novel of the Sartoris family, who embody the ideal of Southern honor and its transformation through was, defeat, and Reconstruction: Colonel John Sartoris, who is murdered by a business rival after the war; his son, Bayard, who learns a new kind of courage by refusing to kill; Cousin Drusilla, a young was widow who rides with Sartoris's cavalry; and Granny Rosa Millard, the matriarch, who must put aside her code of gentility...

In this book are three different approaches to Faulkner, each of them highly entertaining as well as representative of his work as awhole - Spotted Horse, Old Man, and The Bear.